Authorities say the crash happened Thursday just before noon. Police say 83-year-old Virgil Hicks and 82-year-old Mary Hicks, of Statesboro, were traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the freeway and collided with an SUV carrying five people from Boone, N.C.

Police say Hicks turned his 2007 Buick Lucerne left across the freeway trying to get to an exit and collided with a Honda Pilot at the entry to the ramp.